Guide: Commands

Slash commands

Thatch ships /thatch/* commands you run yourself, on top of the nudges the plugin fires on its own schedule. Nudges and commands share the same instruction text, so a behavior works the same whether it fires automatically or you invoke it.

Commands

• /thatch/defrag — find duplicate-candidate memory pairs and clusters, classify each one, consolidate duplicates, and mark the rest checked. Text after the command narrows the scope (for example, a store name).
• /thatch/extract — drain the extraction queue now, instead of waiting for the next nudge or idle-time extraction. opencode only.
• /thatch/hygiene — run the hygiene report and act on it: stale memories, memories scoped to deleted branches, and pending dedup pairs. The agent asks before forgetting anything that may still matter.
• /thatch/reflect — run the session-reflection skill to persist what the current session learned.
• /thatch/compact and /thatch/exit — the wrap-up commands. They run a pre-flight checklist (flush extraction, finish promised memory writes, surface loose ends) before a compaction or an exit, gated by a greenlight token. opencode only; the greenlight mechanics are described in the user guide overview.

Host support

Command	opencode	Claude Code	Cursor
/thatch/defrag	yes	yes	yes (as an MCP prompt)
/thatch/extract	yes	no	no
/thatch/hygiene	yes	yes	yes (as an MCP prompt)
/thatch/reflect	yes	yes	yes (as an MCP prompt)
/thatch/compact, /thatch/exit	yes	no	no

Why the gaps: /thatch/extract needs the invoking session's ID, which only the opencode plugin can supply. The wrap-up commands trigger TUI actions through the plugin. Cursor has no file-based commands; its prompts come from the MCP server (prompts/list and prompts/get).

Installation

• opencode: installed by the plugin on every load.
• Claude Code: installed by thatch setup --claude into the same scope as the skills (.claude/commands/thatch/ project-local, or the Claude config dir for --global). Re-run setup to refresh after an upgrade.

Tool names inside the command text follow each host's spelling (thatch_memory_remember on opencode, mcp__thatch__memory_remember on Claude Code and Cursor).